Considering only “means-tested” programs, such as food stamps, Medicaid, and housing assistance, around 35 percent of Americans live in households that benefit from government assistance.
Approximately 76.4 million or 44.4% of Americans won't pay any federal income tax in 2018,

the economy is entirely an artifact of the human population. Humans are controlled to a great deal by our emotions. Martin Armstrong's economic model is based on changes in confidence. The government manipulates the economy to try to manipulate the confidence level. Federal debt is going up faster than exponentially so, they can only claim to be temporarily successful.
As their grand experiment in managing the markets winds down. We are connected at the quantum level so, word gets around Princeton Egg

The post-war exuberance gave us the baby boom. Today;s economy gives us the baby bust. As more and more job niches disappear, we refuse to bring children into the world. The more advanced a country is and, the more intelligent the people are, the lower the birth rate. Japan leads the way. The Japanese girls are all looking for their "farm boy". Evidently, the pressures of city life run counter to the desire to reproduce.

The State is by nature a PREDATOR. By NECESSITY, it must enforce control over it's citizens. China has just warned it's people that times are going to get tough. China has rolled out it's social credit system where it watches your every move, night and day. Not content with that, it now has a system that predicts when you will commit a crime.
The demands of the techno society run counter to the desires of the humans who don't want to be a cog. The needs of the State run counter to the desires for freedom that are innate in most people.
As artificial intelligence reduces the need for new "cogs" in the process of production, man will continue to lower his birth rate.
As the State rolls out new ways to monitor and control these cogs, the people will rebel in the only way that they are still allowed.
They will go on strike in the maternity ward. They will continue to kill themselves rather than live a meaningless life.

Gambier posted a manifesto from Kaczynski in American ruling class. I'm going to do some excerpts from it.

"1. The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have
been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly
increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in
“advanced” countries, but they have destabilized society,
have made life unfulfilling,
The
continued development of technology will worsen the si-
tuation. It will certainly subject human being to greater in-
dignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world,
it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psy-
chological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical
suffering even in “advanced” countries.

only at the cost of permanently redu-
cing human beings and many other living organisms to
engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine.
Furthermore, if the system survives, the consequences will
be inevitable: There is no way of reforming or modifying
the system so as to prevent it from depriving people of
dignity and autonomy.

4. We therefore advocate a revolution against the in-
dustrial system.
5. In this article we give attention to only some of
the negative developments that have grown out of the
industrial-technological system.

34. Consider the hypothetical case of a man who can
have anything he wants just by wishing for it. Such a man
has power, but he will develop serious psychological pro-
blems. At first he will have a lot of fun, but by and by he
will become acutely bored and demoralized. Eventually he
may become clinically depressed.

History shows that leisu-
red aristocracies tend to become decadent. This is not true
of fighting aristocracies that have to struggle to maintain
their power. But leisured, secure aristocracies that have no
need to exert themselves usually become bored, hedonis-
tic and demoralized, even though they have power. This
shows that power is not enough. One must have goals to-
ward which to exercise one’s power.
35. Everyone has goals; if nothing else, to obtain the
physical necessities of life: food, water and whatever clo-
thing and shelter are made necessary by the climate. But
the leisured aristocrat obtains these things without effort.
Hence his boredom and demoralization.

Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in
defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
37. Thus, in order to avoid serious psychological pro-
blems, a human being needs goals whose attainment re-
quires effort, and he must have a reasonable rate of suc-
cess in attaining his goals.

When people do not have to exert themselves to satisfy
their physical needs they often set up artificial goals for
themselves. In many cases they then pursue these goals
with the same energy and emotional involvement that
they otherwise would have put into the search for physi-
cal necessities. Thus the aristocrats of the Roman Empire
had their literary pretensions; many European aristocrats
a few centuries ago invested tremendous time and energy
in hunting, though they certainly didn’t need the meat;

39. We use the term “surrogate activity” to designate
an activity that is directed toward an artificial goal that
people set up for themselves merely in order to have some
goal to work toward, or let us say, merely for the qake
of the “fulfillment” that they get from pursuing the goal.

41. For many if not most people, surrogate activities are
less satisfying than the pursuit of real goals (that is, goals
that people would want to attain even if their need for the
power process were already fulfilled).

42. Autonomy as a part of the power process may not
be necessary for every individual. But most people need
a greater or lesser degree of autonomy in working to-
ward their goals. Their efforts must be undertaken on
their own initiative and must be under their own direc-
tion and control.

44. But for most people it is through the power process
— having a goal, making an AUTONOMOUS effort and
attaining the goal — that self-esteem, self-confidence and
a sense of power are acquired. When one does not have
adequate opportunity to go through the power process the
consequences are (depending on the individual and on
the way the power process is disrupted) boredom, demo-
ralization, low self-esteem, inferiority feelings, defeatism,
depression, anxiety, guilt, frustration, hostility,

45. Any of the foregoing symptoms can occur in any
society, but in modern industrial society they are present
on a massive scale. We aren’t the first to mention that the
world today seems to be going crazy. This sort of thing is
not normal for human societies.

46. We attribute the social and psychological problems
of modern society to the fact that that society requires
people to live under conditions radically different from
those under which the human race evolved and to be-
have in ways that conflict with the patterns of behavior
that the human race developed while living under the
earlier conditions. It is clear from what we have already
written that we consider lack of opportunity to properly
experience the power process as the most important of
the abnormal conditions to which modern society subjects
people.http://editions-hache.com/essais/pdf/kaczynski2.pdf

The rulers are always trying to control their tax slaves,, nothing new. Power corrupts and, attracts the already corrupted. It follows that; we can expect our leaders to be corrupted. It IS different this time because the powers of surveillance are FAR more advaned than ever before in history.

Armstrong has predicted big changes in both 2020 and, 2032.
"ANSWER: The 2032 date is the conclusion of this Private Wave. That is when the power of the West will begin to shift to China for the next cycle that begins thereafter. The 2020 date is when the confidence begins to noticeably begin to turn down for the AVERAGE person. "
"We will be running the computer models on the 2020 election. But preliminary indications show that we will see a sharp rise in violence. Neither side will accept the results." https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/f...2020-and-2032/

French deplorables, "It drew attention to the economic, cultural and political exclusion of the working classes, most of whom now live outside the major cities. It highlighted the conditions that would later give rise to the yellow-vest phenomenon."
"eripheral France’ is about the geographic distribution of the working classes across France. Fifteen years ago, I noticed that the majority of working-class people actually live very far away from the major globalised cities "
They tend to be people in work, but who don’t earn very much, between 1000€ and 2000€ per month. Some of them are very poor if they are unemployed. Others were once middle-class. What they all have in common is that they live in areas where there is hardly any work left. They know that even if they have a job today, they could lose it tomorrow and they won’t find anything else.

" It is exactly the same shock that the British elites experienced with the Brexit vote and that they are still experiencing now, three years later.

The Brexit vote had a lot to do with culture, too, I think. It was more than just the question of leaving the EU. Many voters wanted to remind the political class that they exist. That’s what French people are using the gilets jaunes for – to say we exist. We are seeing the same phenomenon in populist revolts across the world."https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/0...e-unstoppable/

China
"Outstanding yuan loans were up 13.5% at the end of 2018 from a year earlier… In addition, debt issued by private enterprises increased by 70% year-on-year from November to December last year"
"China in 2019 faces a ticking Credit time bomb. Bank loans were up 13.5% over the past year and were 28% higher over two years, a precarious late-cycle inflation of Bank Credit. Ominously paralleling late-cycle U.S. mortgage finance Bubble excess, China’s Consumer Loans expanded 18.2% over the past year, 44% in two years, 77% in three years and 141% in five years"
"The IIF’s data show total global debt — owed by households, governments, non-financial corporates and the financial sector — at $244tn, or 318% of gross domestic product at the end of September, "
"January 16 – Washington Post (Robert J. Samuelson): “Government debt has tripled from $20 trillion in 2000 to $65 trillion in 2018, rising as a share of GDP from 55% to 87%. Household debt has increased over the same years, from $17 trillion to $46 trillion (from 44% to 60% of GDP). Finally, nonfinancial corporate debt rose from $24 trillion to $73 trillion (71% of GDP to 92%)… According to the data from the IIF, emerging-market borrowers face $2 trillion of maturing debt in 2019"
"“A record $3.9 trillion of emerging market bonds and syndicated loans comes due through the end of 2020."Credit Bubble Bulletin : Weekly Commentary: Monetary Disorder 2019